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2200186 No.2200186 [Reply] [Original]

/lit/ is going to give a good use to this

>> No.2200326

where are the pretentious faggots?

>> No.2200824

>>2200326
This one is talking to himself.

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>>2200824

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AMIDOINGITRITE?

>> No.2201298

>>2201294
You are well on your way to mental retardation, yes.

>> No.2201301

>>2201294

you are such a fag

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>>2201298
>>2201301

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>> No.2202271

>>2200186

i need sex.

>> No.2202309

>>2202271


asl

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here are my super cool influences

>> No.2202333

Kafka, Camus, Joyce. Can't think of any more.

>> No.2202338

>>2202323
Who's the first guy? I know I've seen him on youtube.

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>> No.2202342

>>2202338
allofthetrash

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>> No.2202348

>>2202339
1.Nestor Makhno
2.Petyr Kropotkin
3.Ernesto Guevara
4.Mikhail Bakunin
5.Charlie Chaplin
6.Karl Marx
7.Durruti
8.Rote Armee Fraktion

>> No.2202354

I don't feel like making an image...

Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, Raymond Chandler, J.D. Salinger
Philip K. Dick, Flannery O'Connor, Roger Zelazny, Richard Laymon

Notes: Jim Thompson and Vladimir Nabakov should be on here as well, but there weren't enough boxes.

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>>2202347
:)

>> No.2202357

>>2202354
Out of curiosity, why do you like Salinger? Is it his Glass family short stories? I've only read "Bananafish" and it didn't do much for me.

>> No.2202358

>>2202266
It seems like Nietzsche and Steinbeck contradict each other in a big way. Defend yourself.

>> No.2202368

Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and alan sokal

>> No.2202367

>>2202342
But how is he an influence?
All I've seen of him is videos where he seems high.

>> No.2202382

>>2202367
he's a genius

>> No.2202386

>>2202382
Okay, could you tell me more? Specifically, could you 1) tell me what it is about his technique that makes him a genius and 2) recommend me some stories by him?

>> No.2202387

>>2202357
Salinger was a genius. Nine Stories is the single best short story collection ever published*. (Followed closely by Ellison's Deathbird Stories.) (*That I know of.) His stories are beautiful labyrinths of madness that require the active participation from the reader, in the sense that they require thoughtful interpretation. This is to say nothing of his skill, or the perfectness of his story-structures, which were as perfect as mathematical equations. (The only writers whose structures were (on a consistent basis) similarly perfect were George Orwell and H.P. Lovecraft.)

For a thoughtful reader, there is everything to love about Salinger. I think it's a shame that so many people, turned off by Catcher in the Rye, have no idea what he was capable of.

...also Franny and Zooey changed my life.

>> No.2202388

>>2202386
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_4NoAFSUWc

>> No.2202389

>>2202323
>Che and Jesus

god damnit

>> No.2202399

>>2202389
That's young Castro, my man.

>> No.2202429

>>2202387
Wow, thanks. His other stuff sounds fascinating to me now. Gonna have to check him out.

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I write/want to write mostly horror and stories about people my age, but most of my influences come from essays, documentaries and interviews. I am far more interested in DFW's essays and the persona he portrayed in interviews and readings and whatnot.

Andrew Denton is there because he won out in an internal debate between him and Parkinson. Perhaps if I wasn't Australian Parky would have won, but I see Denton as one of the few prominent geniuses we have in Australia. If he would stop doing behind the scenes stuff [although that is great] I would be beside myself.

>> No.2202453

>>2202438
You are an entry level pretentious hipster.

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>> No.2202454

>>2202438
Can someone name these authors for me?

>> No.2202456

>>2202454
DFW, Andrew Denton [journalist], Louis Theroux [journalist], HP Lovecraft, Werner Herzog, Kubrick, Hunter S Thompson, Claudio Sanchez or Coheed and Cambria [?]

>> No.2202467

Hideaki Anno
Hideo Kojima
Richard Dawkins
Zooey Deschanel
Adele
Bob Marley
JR Tolkien

>> No.2202470

>>2202456
I've read four or five of DFW's stories and like them a lot. What else should I read by him? (I'm a little too busy to make it through Infinite Jest.)

>> No.2202607

>>2202470
I recommend his essays and journalism, it is a lot more accessible than his fiction, some would say better, and gives a more honest and undiluted look at DFW.

>> No.2202913

>>2202453
How is DFW entry level?

>> No.2202931

>>2202913
he's not entry level, but it's an entry level hipster thing to read. like, beginner hipster. don't mind him.

>> No.2202935

>>2202931

thats even worse you jackass

>> No.2202952

>>2202935
its pretty true, that's dfw's reputation / his status as a phenomenon within culture.

we're capable of talking about something's status within society and culture as a phenomenon while acknowledging that this is not the same as its worth, right? obviously not, because this is /lit/, but whatever

>> No.2203015

>No Dostoevsky
Why /lit/, why?

>> No.2204842

bump

>> No.2204871

>>2202358

I like nietzsche's philosophy but I love the way that steinbeck writes.